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This blog post is in response to a question posed in the comments section of Microsoft Lists: Updated Issue Tracker. The question is: "Wondering if there is a way of integrating the Teams chat function into the Issue Tracker – so that when someone opens an “issue”; I can chat with them within the context … Continue reading How to create a Teams chat from Microsoft Lists
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as Power Automate Training Guide: How to Get Your Team Started. Power Automate is one of the four hero apps included in the Power Platform (PowerApps, Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents) that performs task automation and workflow execution for a variety of user build … Continue reading Power Automate Training Guide: How to Get Your Team Started
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as 5 Little-Known Microsoft Lists Features to Boost Efficiency. The Microsoft Lists platform supplies a fantastic way for users to collaborate on data using a single, low-barrier platform where solutions can start modestly and grow as requirements, experience, and features increase. The Microsoft investment in List modernization continues with … Continue reading 5 Little-Known Microsoft Lists Features to Boost Efficiency
Microsoft is rolling out a new Power Platform integration for Microsoft Lists called Visualize the list. This latest addition creates an auto-generated Power BI report based on the underlying list schema. The auto-generated report provides an excellent starting point for users not proficient with Power BI. In this blog post I will show how to … Continue reading A first look at “Visualize the list” in Microsoft Lists
Custom List Templates are starting to roll out to Microsoft Lists. Templates allow organizations to extend their current List based solutions to a broader audience in an approved manner. Complete instructions can be found on the Creating custom list templates page. In this blog post I am going to walk through the experience of adding … Continue reading A first look at Templates in Microsoft Lists
I am always inspired by the JSON column formatting samples available on the PnP List-Formatting GitHub repository. I recently came across Icon Progress Bar by Julien Seguin and immediately knew that this would be a great addition to one of my daily use Lists. The Icon Progress Bar sample uses a numeric value to indicate … Continue reading Add an Icon Progress Bar to Microsoft Lists
In this blog post I will show how to update a Choice column in Microsoft Lists using a Microsoft Teams Adaptive Card and Power Automate. If you are following along please be sure to build the List and Flow as described in: Send reminders to Teams from Microsoft Lists using Power Automate and Send an Adaptive … Continue reading Use Adaptive Cards to Update Microsoft Lists from Teams using Power Automate
In my previous blog post I showed how to Send reminders to Teams from Microsoft Lists using Power Automate. In this post we will extend the Flow functionality to include an Adaptive Card based on our Issue Tracker List data. Please see my previous post for the steps required to complete this build. I'm using the … Continue reading Send an Adaptive Card to Teams from Microsoft Lists using Power Automate
Date based reminders are a great way to add value to any business process, especially when automated. Microsoft Lists has a great email based Set a reminder feature that can be used with no IT support required. Most modern workplace users spend the majority of their time in Microsoft Teams, so to have the reminder … Continue reading Send reminders to Teams from Microsoft Lists using Power Automate
In this blog post I will show how to use Power Automate to create an attribute-based ID in Microsoft Lists. Attribute-based translates to business readable with formatting. This pattern is based on work I did at my previous employer where the List was being used for data imports into a legacy application that required a: … Continue reading Use Power Automate to create an attribute-based ID in MS Lists
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